Structural equation modeling (SEM) with latent variables is a powerful tool for social and behavioral scientists, combining many of the strengths of psychometrics and econometrics into a single ...

Land Economics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 90-100 (11 pages) The research reported in this paper combines agricultural and urban-fringe models, utilizes a combination of cross-sectional and time ...